Monday, July 30, 2007

visits to the great-grandmothers

Yesterday we went to Langley for the day, including the 9:30 morning service which meant an early start to our day. Chantel stayed in church for the morning service and was very wiggly but quiet - thanks to lots of candies. And when Chantel comes to church, Elayna starts acting younger than her age so we had two wiggly girls - lots of fun. We went to Aunt Diane and Uncle Norman's for lunch and planned this to include Brad's cousin Sara who is here from Ontario. We had a nice visit and I hope Sara did too. Then we went to second service - this time with Chantel in the nursery (they have an outdoor slide and she didn't want to leave when I picked her up), and Elayna slept the whole service - no wiggly kids this time! After that, we made our Manoah Manor trip which is always nice because we have two grandmothers there.

Grandma Dehaas was having a good day and it was one of the better visits we've had with her in recent years. She loves seeing the girls and they were all very smiley for her (especially Alyssa!). Elayna sang Jesus Loves Me and Grandma sang along. I also brought the family scrapbook for her and she loved looking at it. Grandma usually starts getting tired by the end of the visit so Brad headed up to his Oma's with the two older girls and I stayed behind to nurse Alyssa and enjoy a little quiet time with Grandma before heading up.

As always, when visiting Oma Vanderhorst, there's usually someone else there too. This time it was Uncle Conrad & Aunt Dinah with Laura and it worked great with Laura watching out for the two older girls. Usually they get bored a little quickly and are trying to explore the bathroom and bedroom but Laura had Elayna giggling like crazy and it was a more relaxing visit for us than usual. It's always nice to see Oma and chat about the latest and we were glad we remembered the camera to get some pics for the girls scrapbooks.

Sara with Alyssa.

Grandma Dehaas with girls. Aren't my two oldest such hams?

Oma Vanderhorst with Alyssa.

We had to bribe Chantel with candies to join the picture and keep reminding Elayna to keep her panties covered so this was the only "decent" shot we got.